skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that linking a PSN account is kind of annoying, but what about it warranted the uproar that it received? Genuinely asking, not concern trolling or whatever.
As I recall it was pretty clear what he was actually interested in, and it wasn't her, so it at least wasn't completely wrong on that particular point. I think it was explicitly sort of a show/cover relationship. But of course I saw it once a long time ago...
It's just the analogy I use to understand ZKPs myself, since I haven't done a ton of research into them yet. It's also why I think ZKPs are cool, so it was my response to a comment asking why people think ZKPs are cool.
Damn that was a difficult read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wael_Al-Dahdouh

2023-10-28: Wife, 15-year-old son, 7-year-old daughter, a grandson and seven other relatives killed in strike on refugee camp.

2023-12-15: Wounded by missile during filming, cameraman fatally wounded and bled to death with ambulances cut off.

2024-01-07: Eldest son, a journalist, killed in air strike.

2024-01-08: Two nephews killed.

2024-01-16: Evacuted to Egypt/Qatar with family. Probably would have been dead by now or with more dead family members if he remained.
The problem with using the DOM or similar UI frameworks is that you have to code the delta from any state to any state by hand.

This is exceedingly complex, error prone (because you might miss parts of the state that should change) and often slow (because you tend to overcorrect).
It would certainly take legislation (because companies have chosen that customer hostile, one sided contracts are currently in their interest), but I think extending something like first sale doctrine to “digital goods” would almost immediately open markets for format and resale.

In my opinion it doesn’t matter that there isn’t a fool proof way to prevent copies because companies have burned their goodwill and destroyed any post-sale value. Customers don’t understand that they are “licensing” content when the buttons they click on literally say “buy the digital version” (Nintendo), Buy (Xbox), Purchase (Steam), “Buy Now” (PlayStation), “Rent or Buy” (Amazon). They also have been burned over and over again through no fault of their own (except believing companies wouldn’t screw them over ) going all the way back to at least 2003 with PlaysForSure™ when Walmart decided to shut down their license servers and anything anyone had bought was no longer playable.

Likewise, if license servers need to be shuttered, customers must get the right to remove DRM encumbrance. Companies that sell DRMd content should be required to put unlock methods in escrow in case of bankruptcy.

So I agree. Long past time. Balance needs to be restored toward the public interest.

While I don’t like current copyright terms, if customer right to resell, format shift, etc. are restored, I feel like that at least brings us back to the state of the world 25 years ago. It wouldn’t make pirated copies any more legal than they are today (or selling a copy while keeping a “backup”), but all of that can be dealt with separately.
PC98 support grew from the facts on the ground: NetBSD and friends had Japanese-language mailing lists and irc channels, for decades

If you were a Japanese enthusiast who wanted to have a "real UNIX" on readily available hardware, NetBSD and FreeBSD were relatively more accessible
I worked on a huge backend system that used ULIDs for everything. I liked them slightly better than UUIDs in general, but nobody coming in or using our system knew what ULIDs were, so we constantly had to explain what they were. If we used UUIDs there would have been far less confusion. In conclusion: Just use UUIDs.
US gov has encouraged finance/tech industry to invest in the security of OSS supply chains.

OpenSSF members: https://openssf.org/about/members

2021, $10MM, https://openssf.org/press-release/2021/10/13/open-source-sec...

> Financial commitments from Premier members include Amazon, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Ericsson, Facebook, Fidelity, GitHub, Google, IBM, Intel, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Oracle, Red Hat, Snyk, and VMware. Additional commitments come from General members Aiven, Anchore, Apiiro, AuriStor, Codethink, Cybertrust Japan, Deepfence, Devgistics, DTCC, GitLab, Goldman Sachs, JFrog, Nutanix, StackHawk, Tencent, TideLift, and Wind River.

2022, $5MM for 10,000 OSS projects, https://openssf.org/press-release/2022/02/01/openssf-announc...

> Following a meeting with government and industry leaders at the White House, OpenSSF is excited to announce the Alpha-Omega Project to improve the security posture of open source software (OSS) through direct engagement of software security experts and automated security testing. Microsoft and Google are supporting the Alpha-Omega Project with an initial investment of $5 million.. “Omega” will identify at least 10,000 widely deployed OSS projects where it can apply automated security analysis, scoring, and remediation guidance to their open source maintainer communities.

2022+2023, $4.8MM disbursed to ten (not 10K?) OSS projects, https://openssf.org/blog/2024/02/16/alpha-omega-2023-annual-... & https://openssf.org/blog/2022/12/14/alpha-omega-project-firs...

Eclipse $1,150,000
NodeJS $579,000
Rust $920,000
Homebrew $175,000
jQuery $350,000
OpenSSL $127,968
OpenRefactory $50,000
Prossimo (ISRG) $530,000
Python $400,000
Linux Kernel $620,000
I’ve wanted a super minimal app that just “counts reps of any repeating motion” without using the phone itself, for many many years.

It’d work for pushups, squats, chinups, etc etc. So many exercises are the same idea of “move body repeatedly”.

I don’t want my phone in my pocket while doing it, I like having my phone in front of me while I do pushups/situps/chinups/etc so I can see the timer/stats.

I’d happily pay for an app that could do that and just let me tag what each one was to add to a log.
> A problem I've seen with this is the assumption that subjects like Physics or Chemistry or Mathematics are not broadly applicable, if it was a discovery or research by a white man.

The science doesn’t know race. But determining which area to research can bias toward the benefit of certain groups.
It can be for either. These ones for example are unlikely to stop a truck going at high speed, but will stop someone who doesn't want a repair bill from parking.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/sYuNiXN4TqAcsHLg9
In this scenario, you should expect to have a representation of around 1 woman per 4 men, if the rate of qualified candidates is 1 woman per 4 men. If you want to hire more than that ratio, you have to be doing some discarding of otherwise qualified candidates on the basis only of being men.
it's good for the economy!
> People did not buy the game with that requirement

That requirement/disclaimer was present on the Steam store page the entire time the game was actually available for purchase.

The main issue was that it was not actively enforced due to server issues at the time - which the studio CEO acknowledged:

> I do have a part to play. I am not blameless in all of this - it was my decision to disable account linking at launch so that players could play the game. I did not ensure players were aware of the requirement and we didn't talk about it enough.
We knew for about 6 months before launch that it would be mandatory for online PS titles.

https://twitter.com/Pilestedt/status/1787076609188483254
I have no words to describe how much I hate this. I bought a game recently, It Takes Two, also from Steam and I had to create an EA Account in order to be able to start this OFFLINE game.

I didn't want to give my infos to EA, so I used an alias adress from Fastmail. I linked the game to the account and, a couple of days later, EA suddenly banned my account, with the game still on it :). Obviously no reason given

They said I can still play what I purchased tho, but that really turned me off from the game.
How about TSIDs? Numerical, half the size, time sorted...
https://vladmihalcea.com/uuid-database-primary-key/
>companies are throwing the phrase "review bombing" around to try and undermine legitimate reviews and concerns from paying customers

Well, the companies won, given it's an official entry in the dictionary: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/review-bomb

> to manipulate an online rating system with a semiorganized campaign of unfavorable user reviews, often as a general statement of disapproval for a creator, a publisher, or other business, rather than a genuine opinion about a specific product or experience

And yeah, that's not a bad definition. This situation seem to meet that definition. It's all relative, but I don't think needing to make a free account completely ruins the experience for 99% of modern online gamers.

>Epic's choice to avoid reviews, despite the resources they have at hand, is pretty squarely anti-consumer and part of why they struggle to gain consumer trust with their store.

I think it's simply a "lose more" scenario. The sentiment changed on Epic very quickly when they had a game people wanted on Steam, so it's a pile on reason to justify their reason to love/hate. It could be spun one way or another based on mood.
What is your background in DevOps and/or Data Engineering?
Base64 (or any other similar encoding) could be of help.

But unrecoverably modifying the data to fit within constraints on input, storage or output seems a rather poor "solution".
The problem is that they sold the game in a lot of countries where you couldn't register a PSN account, including a few countries in the EU. In specific cases like Ukraine you have to own the console to be able to register a PSN account.

They've changed the Steam game entry to not allow selling in those countries, but some people from them already bought the game. PSN is only available in like 1/3 of all the countries Steam supports. And if you use a VPN or something, they can ban you for breaking ToS.
See recent changes already bringing score in the opposite direction https://steamdb.info/app/553850/history/?changeid=23424969
X11 has been unmaintained not once, not twice, but THREE times and it's still the dominant system on UNIX-type things. Xorg is, itself, the thrice-disowned descendant of the o.g. X project.

That is what it is! It's fine! if Wayland is the future, so be it, but it won't be because X11 got deprecated again. X11 has been deprecated plenty of times before!

Wayland may very well take over the unix and most especially linux desktop story, but that is not a done deal, yet. My last two? three? jobs all explicitly required X11 as a thing, so if giant enterprises are not picking up wayland, the deal ain't done, yet, you read me?
You mean the different sub fonts? The whole idea is that they are tightly connected in that they can be used in tandem.
I’ve been following the fab news long enough that I think 90% of the FUD stems from an anti-American attitude in which Americans are intellectually or constitutionally incapable of running fabs to TSMCs standards or stem from the psychic damage that this current administration has done something (reshore manufacturing) the previous administration couldn’t.
> “It is not that unusual to find pieces of type in the river,” Sandy said. “Particularly around Fleet Street, where newspaper typesetters would throw pieces in the water when they couldn’t be bothered to put them back in their cases.

Some assistant being lazy, or rushing to "finish" a task?

Or sorts that broke, or were worn out, and it was normal to toss things into the river?

Or a ritual? (Say, toss a sort into the river for the first page an apprentice sets, or when there's a press failure, or for superstition after printing very bad news?)
The ideal state is having the world's superpowers all devoting effort to improving open source libraries, but all catching each others' backdoors and at the end of the day improving security for everyone.
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Yes. I think this just reinforces the DEMOCRACY message.
I know, but it's still unhelpful performative posturing. There would be zero risk of confusion if it was called simply "Māori" or "the Māori language" instead, the way we do with every other language in the world.
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Idk about Steam but even if that's true, some people bought physical copies of the game not expecting that bullshit. Many were not in countries where PSN even operates. It's bad business for sure. If it needs PSN then that needs to be the first thing you see in the description, like "Now available exclusively on PSN..."
You have evidence of a state-sponsored attack which was only discovered because we got extremely lucky, and you’re not worried?

The attack itself is the frankly evidence. It’s sort of like how we expect there to be life on other planets because there is life on earth.
It sounds like GP is assuming that a car is wider than the bike lane, so putting bollards on each side of the bike lane would stop cars, without blocking bikes from using the centre of the lane?
> and it seemed to be their big portal into getting more sign-ups from a platform they were starting to experiment with

What’s the point of forcing people to sign up? Some form of coercive marketing opportunity? Or just number go up for shareholders? Because it seems like they’re literally providing 0 value to HD2 gamers. Like both now, and in the future. It’s beyond useless, no?
I can't argue that's it's not popular. I just can't imagine why. Watching gameplay footage it looks like any of dozens of similar games. TPS, swarming mobs, orbital strike, woohoo. Would someone tell what this has that makes it so appealing?
Becoming a magician [1]

[1] https://autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/becoming-a...
I know. The Iranians and the talibans do the same, the 3 are more or less incompatible and yet all pretend to be Islam in their country. It’s mostly for their captive audience. Islam in itself does not have to imply brutal dictatorship (this should not need saying).
https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io

Is your goal to "run a server at home" or "run a server on an old phone"

One is an enabler the other is a hobby in its own right...
Realistically, look how few people it took to change it. If we want to change something big, it will take a lot more than a hundred thousand gamers.
A few problems I’ve had with WireGuard:

- it’s very obvious and easily blocked

- requires a server with a public IP (unless you use something like tailscale but then they can see your traffic)

I’ve been thinking about using STUN discovery servers (or syncthing’s) to negotiate a tunnel between two devices inside a NAT and run v2ray over that.
In China, there was a short period where the city I was in blocked all traffic out the country (e.g. even example.com was blocked). In such scenarios, it should be possible to abuse syncthing relays to hop to a less restrictive environment (say to another province that doesn’t have as heavy censorship.
Been trying to hack something together but would love it if something already exists (lmk)
Ultimately, if the people at the company have to do a job, they have to communicate somewhat, and putting it on an email or another recorded medium is the best way to prevent endless meetings and have the perspective documented in a single place.

Everything has a legal liability, it doesn't mean that it's worth it to move everything to an undocumented medium.
Web of trust, but all commits must be signed by at least 3 intelligence agencies from rival countries.
Internal research had low friction external product not so much. They even had a tool, ariane, to help you navigate the product launch friction.
Banning Armenia isn't really an apt comparison since Israel isn't banning all media from Qatar, just one particular news organization which has very deep ties to the enemy they're at war with.
Probably not the best of phrasing. They probably didn't have to (they can definitely keep people employed for years to come if push came to shove), but to give some official details:

- Sony lost some valuations due to needing to lower their PS5 hardware sales projection from 25m to 21m for 2023

- Sony's YoY operating margin fell from 9% to 6%

The reasons for these are a topic of its own (and I'm sure I can dig up a HN post on that very subject), but in a nutshell: the number did not go up, and as usual these "low" numbers are made up for by letting go of labor, the highest expense in any given company.
The biggest issue is that the game was being sold in countries where people couldn't make an account in that country (and where making an account in a different region would be against the ToS and there's no customer support for these people). You can't sell a multiplayer only game in 177 countries that people aren't allowed to make a required account in, then not expect people not to be extremely upset.

In fact, it's insanity that Sony can sell consoles in all these countries without allowing them to make accounts when they literally require it for significant functionality. How is that okay?
The problem with open source is that it's free software, so no one wants to pay for it. Therefore the developers don't spend enough time maintaining and securing it, and not enough time preventing social engineering takeovers.
Motte-and-Bailey speaks to equivocating about positions in argument. There are many other ways to equivocate, e.g. over the meaning of a single word, used in multiple ways in the same argument, as opposed to a retreat to an easier-to-defend position over the initial one presented/being discussed - as in the thread above.

The relationship between the two words is akin to the one between “rectangle” and “square”.
We just love defending democracy
> [...] and won't significantly go stale or decompose (some oxidation will occur - sure) [...]

Just to nerd out a bit: You can dissolve gold in some particularly strong acids, but it doesn't really diminish the value of the gold. The effort for getting it back into elemental form is small relative to the price it fetches.

Compare this to eg aluminium, or to make an even starker contrast: wood.
Describing the report as credible is not accurate. Given that many news outlets retracted their initial claims and the official statements, it is very likely that there is enough evidence that Israel did not bomb the hospital and that the reported number of casualties is inaccurate. You using the "fog of war" argument to dismiss his claim—which was honest enough to say "not certainly"—is irrelevant. You could say this about almost every other reported event in Gaza.

In this case, they have a good argument.
Strange reaction. They created an account just for you and the joke. You should be flattered.
As a society we have purposely shaped the way we do STEM so that it can be carried out by an army of employees trained to do relatively simple tasks. It is much better for a company to hire 15 people to do one thing, than to hire one brilliant person to do the same.

The extra cost is just passed on to the consumer, and you gain predictability and managerial prestige.

As an example, Amazon had twice as many people working just on Alexa as there are employees total at JPL. And JPL designs, engineers, builds and operates dozens of groundbreaking spacecraft, including several space telescopes, Mars rovers, and the Voyager programme. JPL needs people with substantial internal motivation, Amazon et al. do not.
The EA account linking is the only thing keeping me from purchasing It Takes Two. Companies are so desperate to track my data they would rather not have my sale.
I believe you are incorrect. While non-citizens are granted freedom of speech while physically present in America, they are not granted freedom of speech outside of America. If they were, legal restrictions on foreign ownership of broadcast media companies would be difficult to enforce, since corporate expenditures are considered speech under Citizens United.

https://www.freedomforum.org/non-citizens-protected-first-am...
They didn't miss out on mobile. They had a strong mobile system with more than 10% market share in Europe but they only focused on the US market where it was not successful. Then they killed the platform with the god awful Windows 10 Mobile. The biggest enemy of Windows Phone was Microsoft themselves.
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Over some decades of doing development work on legacy systems - sometimes by my companies own design, sometimes contract work for a customer - I've seen lots of things that make me believe that certain customers do prefer complex, buggy software for a very specific reason:

They can hide behind it. "I couldn't finish the task on time because the software had a bug" - sort of stuff. "I couldn't do X because the software doesn't support Y", "The dog ate my homework", etc.

In many cases, it would have been quite possible to design simple, easy and far less bug-prone solutions - but then people working with the software would no longer be able to hide that certain failures might be due to their own incompetence, rather than being a software issue. Therefore - especially in companies with high top-down pressure - people actually prefer working with software that their managers don't fully understand, and that's known for having some bugs and problems.
Why is there not a policy that any PR can be rewritten by a maintainer ? Wherever the PR looks a bit odd, rewrite it so do the same thing a different way. Enough unpredictable change to disrupt finely-tuned subterfuge.
Yes, that is true. However that distinction only really makes a difference in analysis when you are talking about the behaviour of organisations that can create money. Like (central) banks, or at a considerable stretch, Amazon issuing gift-cards.

Companies returning money to shareholders is pretty much equivalent to companies returning economic resources to shareholders.
Gamers really don't ask much. If those things make up fun playable game it is enough to be popular. I have understood it might be formulaic, but it is well executed.

In the end you could ask same thing about any art. Music is just same notes arranged differently, sometimes with voice lines over it, instruments are mostly same. Movies, pretty much same plot points and similar characters. Same goes for TV shows and books... And all of them are popular.
That is very selective reading of the article ignoring some core facts. Forensic post mortem analysis can't be done on 1,400 bodies most of which were mutilated and many burned. There were just not enough experts available to do that work.

There are many testimonies. Including from the rapists themselves. According to Hamas's interpretation of the Quran rape is legitimate as part of Jihad.
Are you arguing that society operates from a position of optimal market theory, and that cultural norms, prejudices, and biases play no role in salary or pay rates for anyone It's not particularly hard to find examples of disparity or exploitation.
astrophage
> UI colors can have different meanings in different cultures.

Really? Can you provide actual examples?

JFYI, I speak Russian, Ukrainian, German, and Mandarin Chinese. I've used native-written apps in all these languages, and I have not seen any significant variations in the UI color selections.

I guess Mandarin Chinese is probably the best example because the red color is seen as more "festive", so it's more common in various app icons.
> The main issue was that it was not actively enforced due to server issues at the time - which the studio CEO acknowledged:

I'd say the bigger issue is that Sony listed the game for sale in many countries in which the requirement to have a PSN account could not be met because Sony doesn't offer PSN there.

If PSN were available in all of those countries then having the requirement listed (which of course nobody reads, because we're programmed to ignore that sort of thing) would be a reasonable out and I'd be fine with telling people to suck it up and make a free PSN account, but the unrestricted selling in regions in which that requirement can't be met was a huge fuckup that's entirely on Sony (and likely why Steam rightfully started giving people no hassle refunds).
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